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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON DESTINY
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Irish dramatist, novelist)
Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
Catherine Booth
I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage]
Christie Brinkley (1954-, American model, actress)
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Les Brown (1945-, American speaker, author, trainer, motivator,)
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Les Brown (1945-, American speaker, author, trainer, motivator,)
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925, American lawyer, politician)
We write our own destiny; we become what we do.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (1898-2003, Wife of Chinese revolutionary leader Chiang Kai-Shek)
It appears I am destined for something; I will live.
Robert Clive
Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say "no." I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947, British occultist)
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny.
Tryon Edwards (1809-1894, American theologian)
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides (BC 480-406, Greek tragic poet)
A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
Epictetus (50-138, Phrygian philosopher)
Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he will you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! s.
Epictetus (50-138, Phrygian philosopher)
Personality, too, is destiny.
Erik H. Erikson (1902-1992, German-born American psychoanalyst)
Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
Edward M. Forster (1879-1970, British novelist, essayist)
I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great (1712-1786, Born in Berlin, King of Prussia (1740-1786),)
Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939, Austrian physician, founder of Psychoanalysis)
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold (1905-1961, Swedish statesman, Secretary-General of the UN)
The destiny of man is in his own soul
Herodotus (BC 484-425, Greek historian)
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
John Oliver Hobbes
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard (1868-1930, American humorist, journalist)
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963, American President (35th))
What God writes on your forehead you will become.
The Koran (c. 500 AD, Islamic Religious Bible)
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762, British society figure, letter writer)
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837, Italian poet, scholar)
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924, American author, founder of Success Magazine)
In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
Rollo May (1931-, American psychologist)
In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
Rollo May (1931-, American psychologist)
Every man has his own destiny; the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller (1891-1980, American author)
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.
Alfred A. Montapert (American author)
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Francois Muriac
Fate and free-will both play an equal role in destinies.
Indian Proverb (Sayings of Indian origin)
Can I pull down the sun with a forked stick, or prevent it from running its course?
New Zealander Proverb
The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.
Jan Patocka (1907-1977, Czech philosopher, activist)
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them.
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
A tree falls the way it leans.
Bulgarian Proverb
He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives, that determine our destiny.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.
Harriet Rosenstein (1932-, American author)
No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
Carl Schurz (1829-1906, German-born American senator)
Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
David Seabury (American doctor, author)
Such as we are made of, such we be.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
Sylvester Stallone (1946-, American actor, writer, director, producer)
Our destiny is shaped by our thoughts and our actions. We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Author Unknown
We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny.
Author Unknown
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947, British mathematician, philosopher)
Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.
Richard Wright
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